UPF implements the Ethical Line, based on Barcelona City Council’s Ethical Mailbox model

UPF becomes the first Catalan university to incorporate this digital communication channel, which has been operating since July, as a guarantee of and a complement to the mechanisms set forth in its Code of Ethics. Barcelona City Council, together with Xnet, which launched the Ethical and Good Governance Mailbox in 2017, has provided UPF with information and experience to implement the tool. Today, 28 September, Barcelona City Council hosted the signature of the protocol for accession by Pompeu Fabra University to Barcelona City Council's Ethical and Good Governance Mailbox. This collaboration has allowed UPF to create the Ethical Line , a digital tool that has now been operating for a few months to respond to reports of non-compliance with the University's ethical principles, under the framework of its Code of Ethics. UPF's Ethical Line, which is the first to be created within the Catalan university setting, is based on the experience, technology and information provided by Barcelona City Council. UPF's Ethical Line , which is the first to be created within the Catalan university setting, is based on the experience, technology and information provided by Barcelona City Council, which, in January 2017, launched the Ethical and Good Governance Mailbox , in keeping with its commitment to transparency and good practices and the selfless collaboration of the citizen platform Xnet. The collaboration framework protocol has been signed by Laia Bonet , deputy mayor for Agenda 2030, Digital Transition, Sports and Territorial and Metropolitan Coordination; Oriol Amat, UPF rector, and Sergio Salgado and Simona Levi , chair and co-founder of Xnet, respectively.